Today, I find I could not store files on my hard drive, and I received the following message:
You need to format the disk in drive K: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?
Here, as we know formatting will erase all data on this disk, so I chose “Cancel”. However, I received another warning as follows:
In this case, what should I do? Can I get all original data saved on this corrupted hard drive back?
Fortunately, my boyfriend introduced a professional tool which can effectively and quickly recover data from this hard drive.
Want to know the best tool?
Recover Data from Corrupted Hard Drive
MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of all-in-one data recovery software, can help to easily recover lost data because of its excellent performance.
The above window is the main interface of this software, and 5 different data recovery modules are listed here. At this time, you can move the mouse to know some basic information of each module, and then select a suitable one according to actual needs to recover lost data.
For instance, to recover data from corrupted hard drive, you had better choose “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this feature is specially designed to recover data from damaged, RAW or formatted partitions.
And then, you will be given detailed operating prompts. Just do as told.
Watch damaged partition recovery :
Note
1: It is recommended to store recovered files on another drive! Otherwise, the lost data could be over written.
2: After corrupted hard drive data recovery, you need to format the corrupted hard drive if you want to reuse it again.
Here, How to Fix: You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It will help you to get more information about this issue.